May 2013
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The magical is sometimes the only way of looking at things that are hard to...
– Jennifer Mills Q&A on The Short Form (via engl272)
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So let your characters dream if they must, but be advised that their dreams —...
– Margaret Atwood on the use of dreams in fiction (via engl272)
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The boy in the labyrinth practices his kiss. He puts his palm to his mouth and...
– Oliver de la Paz, “LABYRINTH 26”, 3 POEMS
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Deathless Press: NEW! Spring 2013 Books →
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Deathless Press chapbooks are written all over the world and handmade in Boston.
“The Bouquet” by Kate McIntyre
An unsettling story in which a bride-to-be’s ruthless quest for the perfect floral arrangement leads her to the shop of a strange, small crone who promises more than the…
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There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before... →
Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old
I’m fading gracefully. The tragedy does not lie upon the fall. It lies upon the...
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 22 January 1933. (via goldenlocket)
April 2013
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Last Minute Literary News
Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, deadline May 31, for manuscripts of 40,000-75,000 words.
April 30 is the last day to submit to Pear Noir!
Ditto the First Annual Treehouse Literary Loot Contest for Unusual Prose. Terrific prizes.
Fireside Magazine’s call for flash fiction submissions closes May 1.
Nothing like pressure to kickstart the writing. If you missed out this time around,...
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via goldenlocket)
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March 2013
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Issue #2 OLD THINGS deadline is March 31 →
5 more days to submit to Issue #2: Old Things! Send your speculative stories and poems to us by March 31. We want things that are old, either figuratively or literally. Vintage, hoary, worn, so-old-it’s-been-forgotten tales: Serve them up!
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Instructions on How to Raise Your Captor, Jailor, and Negative Mother Figure up...
– Rapunzel Dreams of Knives by Beth Adele Long, Strange Horizons 17 October 2005.
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linnaly: City Girls, by LiAnn Yim →
fwrictionreview: We are all afraid of the man we have read about in the newspaper. This city, which is all we’ve ever known, is a strange place. Chainsaw attacks in the subway. Acid thrown outside apartments; fires set inside elevators. Cranes topple off half-built buildings. But this is…
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I slept. My hair strangled sparrows in the eaves.
– Catherynne M. Valente, “Rampion”
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Call for Submissions: Issue #2 Old Things →
Just under 4 weeks left to submit to Issue #2 Old Things! Send us stories and poems of a speculative bent that are old, either figuratively or literally.
The reading period for Issue #2 Old Things ends March 31, 2013. See the guidelines page for further detail.
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She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and...
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
February 2013
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